Community Outreach Program

在过去的十年中，全美拉美裔/拉丁裔癌症研究网络建立了一个由社区团体、研究机构和政府卫生机构组成的蓬勃发展的全国性网络，以促进拉美裔/拉菲诺(HL)社区的癌症意识活动，促进HL学生和研究人员的培训和研究机会，并产生关于HL癌症关键问题的研究。 Redes en Accidn社区推广方案的目的是使用基于社区的 参与性研究(CBPR)方法，以加强和扩大现有的强大网络，在卫生保健专业人员、公共卫生研究人员和社区成员组织中传播卫生信息、资源和政策问题。 我们将利用加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)、圣地亚哥州立大学(SDSU)、迈阿密大学(UM)、纽约长老会医院(NYPH)和圣安东尼奥德克萨斯大学健康科学中心(UTHSCSA)这五个合作机构所在地区之间和地区内现有的强大网络，提高社区对癌症的认识，改善HL健康结果，并推动围绕获得癌症护理和减少每个当地HL社区的癌症健康差距的社会变革。在公共卫生倡导框架的指导下，^我们将参与 开展一系列正在进行的教育和外展活动，促进将癌症信息和所有与项目相关的研究结果传播到实践中，并为政策和决策进程提供信息，以在多个层面上减少高级别癌症患者的癌症健康差异(见图1)。 鉴于对为HL服务的社区组织量身定做的癌症预防计划的迫切需求，社区外联计划致力于研究实施，纳入周围HL社区的需求和观点，同时保持沟通，以迅速传播研究结果和完善方案。

Over the past decade, Redes En Accidn: The National Hispanic/Latino Cancer Research Network has built a thriving national network of community-based groups, research institutions and government health agencies to promote cancer awareness activifies among Hispanic/Lafino (HL) communities, promote training and research opportunities for HL students and researchers, and generate research on key HL cancer issues. The purpose of the Redes En Accidn Community Outreach Program is to use communitybased participatory research (CBPR) approaches to strengthen and expand an existing robust network for disseminafing health informafion, resources and policy issues among health care professionals, public health researchers and community members organizafions that serve HLs. We will capitalize on the strong existing networks already in place among and within the regions of our five collaborating institutions, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), San Diego State University (SDSU), University of Miami (UM), NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) in New York and The University Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), to increase community cancer awareness, improve HL health outcomes, and drive social change around access to cancer care and reducing cancer health disparities in each local HL community. Guided by a public health advocacy framework,^ we will engage in a range of ongoing education and outreach activities, facilitate dissemination of cancer informafion and findings from all project-related studies into practice, and inform policy and decision-making processes to reduce cancer health disparifies among HLs at multiple levels (see Figure 1). Given the ovenwhelming need for cancer prevenfion programs tailored to HL-serving community-based organizations, the Community Outreach Program is committed to research implementation that incorporates the needs and perspectives of the surrounding HL community, while maintaining communication for prompt dissemination of study findings and protocol refinement.